:star: New Features

• Support setting gradle provider values in BuildInfoProperties.additional map #37889
• Add properties for configuring Jackson's EnumFeature and JsonNodeFeature #37885
• When auto-configuring MockMvc, add filters with their init parameters and dispatcher types #37835
• Add SSL bundle support to RabbitMQ auto-configuration #37833
• Implement SSL bundle reload #37808
• restTemplateBuilderConfigurer doesn't need to be @ConditionalOnMissingBean #37746
• Add 'keep-alive' property to SpringApplication and document that it is useful when using virtual threads #37736
• Add property for PEM SSL bundles to verify keys #37727
• Add background preinitializers for Tomcat and JDK ZoneId #37670
• Add classic loader module and the ability to easily switch implementations #37669
• Rewrite nested jar support code and remove Java 8 support #37668
• Relocate launcher classes to 'org.springframework.boot.loader.launch' package #37667
• Add auto-configuration for SpanAspect #37640
• Auto-configure HikariCheckpointRestoreLifecycle for a user-defined HikariDataSource #37630
• Add SSL bundle support to Apache Kafka auto-configuration #37629
• Expand transaction manager customization to support any type of TransactionManager #37628
• Add auto-configuration for CountedAspect and TimedAspect #37626
• Provide a configuration property for RabbitMQ's max inbound message body size #37603
• Move spring.jms.listener.acknowledge-mode to spring.jms.listener.session.acknowlege-mode #37602
• Add support for configuring non-standard JMS acknowledge modes #37576
• Disable validate connection on borrow for Oracle UCP datasource #37501
• Add configuration properties for JmsTemplate's sessionAcknowledgeMode and sessionTransacted #37500
• Add a configuration property for configuring sessionTransacted flag on auto-configured JMS listener container #37473
• Develop a more efficient WebResourceSet implementation for nested jars #37452
• Rename spring.jms.listener.concurrency property to spring.jms.listener.min-concurrency #37451
• Add Awaitility to spring-boot-starter-test #37195
• Support new CSP auth method for Wavefront (AOA) #37165
• Refine Spring Boot startup message when restoring a Spring Boot application with CRaC #37084
• Support parallel initialization of Testcontainers #37073
• Support RestClient.Builder with @RestClientTest #37033
• Break cycle between TransactionManagerCustomizers and TransactionManager #36801
• Add any TransactionExecutionListener beans to the auto-configured transaction manager #36770
• When virtual threads are enabled, auto-configure Spring Pulsar to use them #36347
• Add a testAndDevelopmentOnly Gradle configuration #35436
• Disable user details auto-configuration if the application has resource server, saml, or oauth2-client dependencies #35338
• Provide a setting for automatic context propagation with reactor-core #34201
• Honor timeouts in Zipkin WebClient sender #31496
• Support java.nio.file Paths and FileSystems with nested jars #7161

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• Constructor binding with a custom collection type does not work #37942
• @Order does not work on (CommandLine|Application)Runner @Bean methods #37939
• @ComponentScan on a test class is processed when creating a test context but is not included in the context's cache key #37925
• Restarter creates memory leak in tests #37921
• Wrong HandlerMapping ordering for GraphQL WebSocket configuration #37892
• AOT processing fails when a @WebServlet found by scanning is annotated with @MultipartConfig #37884
• Gradle plugin uses to-be-deprecated API for getting and setting file permissions #37882
• Task executor metrics are not registered when using lazy initialization #37839
• Gradle AOT processing tasks do not use project's Java toolchain #37827
• @ServiceConnection is not found when used in an interface implemented by a test class #37799
• Image building can fail when using GraalVM compilation and a remote Docker daemon #37666
• NPE from Jetty's WebSocketUpgradeFilter when testing with @SpringBootTest, @AutoConfigureMockMvc, and MockMvc #37664
• @WebListener does not work in a native image without additional reflection hints #37636
• AspectJ transaction management with compile-time weaving does not work with spring.main.lazy-initialization=true #37633
• IPv6 IP addresses cannot be used with RabbitMQ #37622
• Unwanted Logback status messages are sometimes logged during startup #37601
• Managed types for Neo4j are not used in Neo4j Data auto configuration #37595
• fileMode and dirMode are not applied to all entries in an archive produced by BootJar #37589
• When using checkpoint-restore and Hikari, dependency injection fails if the HikariDataSource has been replaced or wrapped #37580
• Application fails to start when an optional config import cannot be resolved #37571
• Contrary to the documentation, setting spring.jms.listener.concurrency alone configures the maximum concurrency #37554
• Dependency management for kafka-server-common with a test classifier is missing #37543
• RepackageMojo doesn't support 1 digit numerical values for project.build.outputTimestamp #37536
• Excluding ReactiveUserDetailsServiceAutoConfiguration can cause a WebFlux app to fail to start due to a null authentication manager #37504
• Signed Jar verification fails from a nested Jar under Oracle Java 17 #28837
• Does not work 'classpath*:' for Resource[] property on configuration properties since 2.x #15835

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Document that 'spring.docker.compose.file' can be used to share Docker Compose configuration between applications #37960
• Mention new RestClient class when suggesting @RegisterReflectionForBinding #37726
• Remove link to LiveReload website due to timeout #37692
• Use the term "uber jar" in reference documentation and javadoc #37653
• Refer to ActiveMQ as ActiveMQ "Classic" #37616
• Default value of spring.jmx.registration-policy is not documented #37611
• Removal of spring.webflux.multipart.streaming is not documented #37610
• Update documentation to align with Mockito 5 using the inline mock maker by default #37572
• Add Javadoc since for AbstractAotMojo.getSession() #37548
• Document support for Java 21 #37533
• Use more idiomatic Kotlin in example for "Map Health Indicators to Micrometer Metrics" #37511

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.9 #37802
• Upgrade to Classmate 1.6.0 #37862
• Upgrade to Commons Pool2 2.12.0 #37770
• Upgrade to Couchbase Client 3.4.11 #37771
• Upgrade to Dropwizard Metrics 4.2.21 #37899
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch Client 8.10.4 #37912
• Upgrade to Flyway 9.22.3 #37864
• Upgrade to GraphQL Java 21.2 #37906
• Upgrade to HttpCore5 5.2.3 #37775
• Upgrade to Infinispan 14.0.19.Final #37865
• Upgrade to Jackson Bom 2.15.3 #37900
• Upgrade to Jedis 5.0.1 #37776
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.2 #37803
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.18.7 #37866
• Upgrade to Kafka 3.6.0 #37777
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.9.20-RC #37926
• Upgrade to Log4j2 2.21.0 #37907
• Upgrade to Maven Shade Plugin 3.5.1 #37778
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.0-RC1 #37703
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.2.0-RC1 #37704
• Upgrade to Mockito 5.6.0 #37779
• Upgrade to MongoDB 4.11.0 #37874
• Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 5.13.0 #37780
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.100.Final #37867
• Upgrade to OkHttp 4.12.0 #37908
• Upgrade to OpenTelemetry 1.31.0 #37782
• Upgrade to Pooled JMS 3.1.4 #37783
• Upgrade to Pulsar Reactive 0.4.0 #37801
• Upgrade to R2DBC MySQL 1.0.5 #37868
• Upgrade to Rabbit AMQP Client 5.19.0 #37785
• Upgrade to Rabbit Stream Client 0.13.0 #37786
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2023.0.0-RC1 #37705
• Upgrade to RxJava3 3.1.8 #37787
• Upgrade to Selenium 4.14.1 #37875
• Upgrade to Selenium HtmlUnit 4.13.0 #37789
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.1.0-RC1 #37706
• Upgrade to Spring Authorization Server 1.2.0-RC1 #37707
• Upgrade to Spring Batch 5.1.0-RC1 #37708
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2023.1.0-RC1 #37709
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.1.0-RC1 #37710
• Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 2.2.0-RC1 #37876
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.2.0-RC1 #37711
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.1.0-RC1 #37712
• Upgrade to Spring LDAP 3.2.0-RC1 #37713
• Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 1.0.0-RC1 #37918
• Upgrade to Spring Retry 2.0.4 #37714
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.2.0-RC1 #37715
• Upgrade to Spring Session 3.2.0-RC1 #37716
• Upgrade to SQLite JDBC 3.43.2.0 #37877
• Upgrade to Testcontainers 1.19.1 #37790
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.15 #37903
• Upgrade to UnboundID LDAPSDK 6.0.10 #37791
• Upgrade to Undertow 2.3.10.Final #37934

:heart: Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@JinseongHwang, @OlgaMaciaszek, @SimonVerhoeven, @bottlerocketjonny, @dependabot[bot], @eddumelendez, @erichaagdev, @esperar, @garyrussell, @izeye, @jbertram, @jonasfugedi, @jonatan-ivanov, @mhalbritter, @michael-simons, @nielsbasjes, @onobc, @shin-mallang, @sreekarareddy, @sushant1987, @techiesarav, @ttddyy, and @vpavic